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Author Langan-Egan, Maureen.

Title Galway women in the nineteenth century / Maureen Langan-Egan.

Imprint Dublin : Open Air, ©1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 L271G    Check Shelf
Description 172 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
Contents The Necessities of Life -- Employment -- Housing -- Clothing -- Food -- The Nature of Society -- Marriage -- Unmarried Mothers -- Widows -- Religion -- Education -- Distress -- Distress and Famine -- Migration and Emigration -- Women and Crime.
Summary "For most people in nineteenth-century Ireland, life was a struggle. This book focuses on Galway city and county, and on the way women coped with endemic poverty, unemployment, emigration and famine. It describes a society in transition, a people left largely to their own devices and under pressure from all sides. All the evidence points to a reduction in the status and a narrowing of opportunities for women in the period 1815 to 1900"--Jacket.
Subject Women -- Ireland -- Galway (County) -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Ireland -- Galway (County) -- Social conditions.
Galway (Ireland : County) -- History.
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Ireland -- Galway (County) (OCoLC)fst01331748
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Langan-Egan, Maureen. Galway women in the nineteenth century. Dublin : Open Air, ©1999 (OCoLC)654348596
ISBN 1851824618
9781851824618
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